over the last several years the erxell concept has had a few great acknowledgements from industry and educational facilities. one of these erxell achievement awards was given to me from the academy of advanced technology. i received this award in 2007 at a graduation ceremony i attended as a SAID representative. i was unaware at the time they had put down professor in front of my name on the award. another time at a CAD conference in Johannesburg i gave a lecture - "future techno perfect" i was introduced as Dr damstra on the printed program - again i had to explain the fact I'm not a Dr or a professor - i have also been termed in a design magazine as a maverick architect. this is also a confusion because i am in actual fact a professional senior architectural technologist. however it is great that the erxell concept receives this sort of positive attention. as i do see it as a way for the financially destitute to improve their environment whilst earning an income.
so I'm not trying to reach higher than my station and i hope that this clears up any prof , doc, arch titles floating around out there.
